Halmatic/Christina project

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Hi all compliments for the festive season and may you all enjoy the new year.
I am asking for some help on here to identify my new boat.

She is a 25ft halmatic hull number 0487 build date 08/12/1965,lloyds number 1346.

I have been told it is possibly a "christina" or a former navy captains hull,pictures to follow when I can figure out how to do it.
kind regards and any help would be appreciated.
 
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Mario,

There will be some others along in a while who will be angle to help with the identification.

To post pix/vid, best to use something like Photobucket, where you can load you images, and import them from there.
 
Do you have the booklet by Charles Lawrence? That explains it.

You have a Halmatic Ocean 25 hull.

In the late 1950's Fairey built 4 Huntress as open day boats, from that point on there was 2 parallel development paths, some Hulls were sold to Bruce Campbell who built them into cabin cruisers called 'Christinas', so far everything is 23ft, some time later he stopped buying hot moulded Fairey hulls and started buying cold moulded, still timber, hulls from Walter Lawrence, these WL hulls were 25 ft, some time later, one of these was used as a plug to make a GRP hull, this is what you have.

Lots of builders and lots of layouts/cabin styles have been built, single and twin on both shafts and outdrives.

Even in the last 10 years, someone on the broads was using the hull for river cruisers.

Edit - the other development path became the Huntress and later the Huntsman 28, the 23ft Huntress was sold in fairly big numbers to the Royal Navy.
 
Thank you for the kind replies.
I have found very little info on these boats,however a thread has appeared on the classic/motor boat forums which has further clouded my research,see following paragraph.

I recently had an email from “captainpugwash” who has an old Halmatic Ocean 25 which was the GRP version of the last Christina’s after Campbell’s demise…he is in the process of rebuilding her in the “old style” cabin which reminded me of a certain other Fibreglass Christina and our old friend Ken Raybould……if you check out the stern there you see a young Ken (26 yrs old) taking in the ’65 Miami sunshine prior to the M-N race…owner Bert Figgins and wife aboard with I believe Stan Norman…Thunderfish 2 was built much lighter in its construction, the hull failed and she sank in the ’66 race….

Can anybody shed any light on what she possibly is ?
Many thanks
 
Hi,
It is definitely a halmatic ocean 25 built in the mid 60's. it is a grp version of the christina 25 hull with a superstructure designed specifically for the ocean 25. There were 12 built, I have a scruffy old one which I am rebuilding as above. They generally had twin petrol outdrives or perkins 6354 on a v drive. There was one for sale on gum tree in Ireland just before Xmas and another on ebay same time. All looked the same as yours.
Al
 
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This was for sale in Ireland . Mine is completely gutted at present, with new engine beds, tanks etc. when the spring comes, I will be moulding a new cabin/ deck in the style of a fairey huntsman. What has yours in it?
 
Hi Al

Mine is the one off ebay,currently with new wiring loom fitted,tekdek all round and new cockpit fabricated.
the cockpit has been pro spray painted in diamond white and the hull has a new navy gel coat

The engine is a 6ltr turbo diesel perkins,reconditioned and has never been run in water.I am currently fitting the prop and rudder before moving on to the interior which has been gutted and all new goingback in,big job but worth doing.
More pic's to follow
 
Hi guys
Ocean raker is coming to the end of her refit...just the interior to finish.
I cant seem to post pics on here but there are some on the copc website.
 
mario said:
I cant seem to post pics on here but there are some on the copc website.
Click to expand...

Like this thread? http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?369771-The-Ford-to-Cummins-Conversion-Thread

It's very easy - and it'd be great if you could do this...

Just open a Photobucket account.

Then open the resulting album, or bucket, and hover over the cog on the top right of the relevant picture. Click on Get Links, then click on Direct.

Paste the copied link within "
", leaving no spaces, and you're done.

After then, you can cut and paste full links, and just change the image name - even before you're uploaded the pictures.

Looking for to them.

Yours,

Another Halmatic owner!
 
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